London County Council
John Galsworthy, 1867 - 1933, novelist and playwright, lived here, 1918 - 1933.
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
NW3, Admiral's Walk, Admiral's House & Grove Lodge
Londonist have a good post about this house.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Galsworthy
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literatu...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Galsworthy
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
John Galsworthy
Our picture shows the north-east corner of the Yard. The cyclist is in front of the two benches. The plaque is carved on the panel on the...
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M. 1836 - 1912, painter, lived here, 1886 - 1912. Greater London Council
Haroon Shamsher 1965 - 1999 founder of influential music collective Joi lived here. Awarded by BBC Asian Network BBC Music Day British Pl...
The large archway through which the piped river still occasionally flows into the Thames is actually slightly to the north-east of this p...
This sign is suffering from being so low down. It would have originally been on a building at first or second floor level, well ventilate...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
Civil servant, journalist and author. He served in the Indian Civil Service, for North-Western Provinces from 1867 to 1876, after which he worked in London as a journalist. From the 1880s onwards, ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Belgium, India
English Heritage Vera Brittain, 1893 - 1970 Winifred Holtby, 1898 - 1935 writers and reformers, lived here.
The statue was unveiled in Bergkamp's lifetime which puts him in a select club - see Fenner Brockway statue.
Also called the College of Civilians, this was a society of lawyers practising civil (as opposed to common) law. The buildings where the court proceedings took place also had a big library and room...
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